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One negative impact is the administrative burden of moderating those pages. There are disputes, there is false information, intentional misinformation etc that 'editors' need to remove. The positive of having Muhammad Lee have a page on Wikipedia is I think less than this negative.

We already have social media profiles for non-notable people's life and accomplishments. That should be enough.




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